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Common Rolls

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of flour
• 1 tea-spoonful of salt
• 1 jill of water
• 1 jill of milk
• 1 jill of the best yeast

Instructions

Sift the flour into a pan, and mix with it the salt. Warm together the water and the milk. Make a hole in the middle of the pan of flour; mix yeast with the milk and water, and pour it into the hole. Mix into the liquid enough of the surrounding flour to make a thin batter, which you must stir till quite smooth and free from lumps. Then strew a handful of flour over the top, and set it in a warm, place to rise for two hours or more. When it is quite light, and has cracked on the top, make it into a dough with some more milk and water. Knead it well for ten minutes. Cover it, and set it again to rise for twenty minutes. Then make the dough into rolls or round balls. Bake them in a square pan, and send them to table hot, cut in three, buttered and put together again.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).